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Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal. Photo: UNICEF/Brown 26 September 2017 &#150 A month on from counter-terror operations following attacks on police outposts in Myanmar's Rakhine province, seven United Nations rights experts have called on the Government to stop all violence against the minority Muslim Rohingya community as well as on the global community to "go beyond" statements and take action to save them.

But the media spotlight has drifted on over time, and any sympathy that first greeted the refugees has since been overshadowed by xenophobia and panic. One year after the 2015 target was set, the EU Parliament, a body of representatives that parallels the ...

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal. Photo: UNICEF/Brown 26 September 2017 &#150 A month on from counter-terror operations following attacks on police outposts in Myanmar's Rakhine province, seven United Nations rights experts have called on the Government to stop all violence against the minority Muslim Rohingya community as well as on the global community to "go beyond" statements and take action to save them.

Less than a third of the 54,000 asylum seekers EU countries agreed to relocate have been provided long-term resettlement. A refugee family carry their belongings during a police operation at a refugee camp at the border between Greece and Macedonia, May 24, 2016.

Anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland AfD party gets together for their first parliamentary meeting in Berlin, Germany September 26, 2017. Photo - Reuters Anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland AfD party gets together for their first parliamentary meeting in Berlin, Germany September 26, 2017.

A man attempts to salvage metal to repair his home on September 22, 2017 in Roseau, capital of the Caribbean island of Dominica, four days after the passage of Hurricane Maria. Maria previously tore through several Caribbean islands, claiming the highest toll on Dominica, which has a population of around 72,000 and has been largely cut off from the outside world.

Egypt's El Gouna Film Festival has a chance of becoming the Cannes of the Middle East, Hollywood star and Golden Globe Award winner Dylan McDermott said in an interview with Xinhua during the event. The week-long event that kicked off on Sept.

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But the media spotlight has drifted on over time, and any sympathy that first greeted the refugees has since been overshadowed by xenophobia and panic. One year after the 2015 target was set, the EU Parliament, a body of representatives that parallels the ...

Former attorney general and congressman for the State of California, Dan Lungren, it telling T&T citizens they have the power to apply pressure on the Opposition and Government to fight crime... Today T&T celebrates our 41st anniversary as a Republic.

12 to offer support to the 8-year-old boy’s family. Town resident Rebecca MacKenzie said she felt compelled to organize the rally to draw attention to a climate of racial intolerance and xenophobia. Religious leaders, city officials and the police chief ...

Driesang pointed to the example of Bernd Lucke, who founded the AfD then left in 2015 due to what he saw as rising xenophobia and then formed a new, unsuccessful party. Petry was the most recognizable face in the AfD during its swift rise over the past two ...

A young Nigeria man has been allegedly beaten to death by police officers in South Africa in what is clearly a case of Xenophobia where Nigerians are targeted. The victim who has been identified as Clement Ofoma, a native of Obosi in Anambra State ...

The world is not just America. Ethnocentrism without acknowledging other cultures leads us to unfairly presume American superiority and supremacy. In analyzing events in the world and in our communities, try not to think in terms of right or wrong or in us ...

Because the presidential elections are largely informed by ethnocentrism, it’s easier for candidates to determine a priori which constituencies would pivot them beyond the 50 per cent mark. Such is believed to have been the case in the infamous 2007 ...

America is already great. Donald Trump, with his ethnocentrism and his isolationism and his tribalism, just doesn’t get it because we are all one tribe — the human tribe. What we should be concerned with is making the world a better place for everyone.

Ethnicity within Orthodoxy does not separate Christians. Sadly, there are many recent political movements in our country erupting violently, fueled by racial bigotry and ethnocentrism. Within Orthodoxy, ethnic nationalism, division and racism were ...